I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

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71. You are not a liberal if you are hostile to our identity as people.

*************It’s not so shocking that questions of identity are important to those whose identity shapes — often negatively — the way they are allowed to move through the world and pursue the values that identity’s detractors would urge us to focus on instead. If African Americans find it disproportionately difficult to take advantage of liberal promises of life, freedom and economic opportunity because of their identity, it stands to reason that identity remains a concern. And while not all Americans can relate, this doesn’t make black people’s concerns false, or less worthy of urgent conversation. The same can be said for women, immigrants and LGBT Americans.******************

*******************In fact, those arguing for a diminishing of questions of identity in political discussion are asking those who don’t share their privileged position to wait their turn, as though justice delayed isn’t still justice denied. Citizens for whom race, gender, sexuality or even religion are important are encouraged to work within and thereby prop up a system that doesn’t serve their needs, assuming that solutions will eventually arrive quietly and trickle down despite decades of evidence to the contrary.********************

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